Looking at the issue of child mental health and drawing on theory and methods from anthropology and cognitive linguistics, this study explores the role of cultural models in science translation. In-depth interviews with members of the American public reveal the cultural assumptions that Americans employ in thinking about child mental health, which differ dramatically from the ways scientists explain this topic. The study finds that public understandings of causation shape perceptions of effective solutions on this issue. Findings suggest strategies to translate the science of child mental health and encourage productive thinking of policy solutions to this issue.
BostromA.FischhoffB.MorganM. G. (1992). Characterizing mental models of hazardous processes: A methodology and an application to Radon. Journal of Social Issues, 48, 4, 85-100.
2.
D’AndradeR. (1984). Cultural meaning systems. In ShwederR. A.LeVineR. (Eds.), Culture theory: Essays on mind, self, and emotion (pp. 88-119). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
3.
D’AndradeR. (1987). A folk model of the mind. In HollandD.QuinnN. (Eds.), Cultural models in language and thought (pp. 112-150). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
4.
D’AndradeR. (1995). The development of cognitive anthropology. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
5.
D’AndradeR. (2005). Some methods for studying cultural cognitive structures. In QuinnN. (Ed.), Finding culture in talk: A collection of methods (pp. 83-104). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
6.
EricssonK. A.SmithJ. (1991). Toward a general theory of expertise: Prospects and limits. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
7.
EwingK. (1990). The illusion of wholeness: Culture, self and the experience of inconsistency. Ethos, 18, 3, 251-278.
8.
GamsonW. A.ModiglianiA. (1989). Media discourse and public opinion on nuclear power: A constructionist approach. American Journal of Sociology, 95(1), 1-37.
9.
GeertzC. (1973). The interpretation of cultures. New York, NY: Basic Books.
10.
GentnerD.StevensA. (1983). Mental models. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum.
11.
GoffmanE. (1967). Interaction ritual: Essays in face-to-face behavior. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers.
12.
GranovetterM. (1985). Economic action and social structure: The problem of embeddedness. American Journal of Sociology, 91(3), 481-510.
13.
HarlowB. L.HartgeP. (1983). Telephone household screening and interviewing. American Journal of Epidemiology, 117, 632-633.
14.
HirschmanE. (2003). Men, dogs, guns and cars: The semiotics of rugged individualism. Journal of Advertising, 32(1), 9-22.
15.
HutchinsE. (1984). Why the islands move. Perception, 13, 629-632.
16.
KeesingR. (1987). Models, “folk” and “cultural”: Paradigms regained? In HollandD.QuinnN. (Eds.), Cultural models in language and thought (pp. 369-394). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
17.
KemptonW. (1987). Two theories of home heat control. In HollandD.QuinnN. (Eds.), Cultural models in language and thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
18.
KemptonW. (1991). Lay perspectives on global climate change. Global Environmental Change, 1, 3, 183-208.
19.
Kendall-TaylorN. (2009). Treatment seeking for a chronic disorder: How families in coastal Kenya make epilepsy treatment decisions. Human Organization, 68, 141-153.
KrausN.MalmforsT.SlovicP. (1992). Intuitive toxicology: Expert and lay judgments of chemical risks. Risk Analysis, 12, 215-232.
22.
LakoffG.JohnsonM. (1980). Metaphors we live by. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
23.
LeadbeaterB. (2010). The fickle fates of push and pull in the dissemination of mental health programs for children. Canadian Psychology, 51, 221-230.
24.
LevineR. (1984). Properties of culture: An ethnographic view. In ShwederR.LevineR. (Eds.), Cultural theory: Essays on mind, self and emotion (pp. 67-87). Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.
25.
LincolnY. S.GubaE. G. (1985). Naturalistic inquiry. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
26.
ManuelT.GilliamF.Jr. (2009). Advancing support for early child mental health policies: Early results from Strategic Frame Analysis™ experimental research. Washington, DC: FrameWorks Institute.
27.
MathewsH.HillC. E. (1990). Applying cognitive decision theory to the study of regional patterns of illness treatment choice. American Anthropologist, 92, 155-169.
28.
QuinnN. (Ed.). (2005). Finding culture in talk: A collection of methods. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
29.
QuinnN.HollandD. (1987). Culture and cognition. In HollandD.QuinnN. (Eds.), Cultural models in language and thought (pp. 3-40). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
30.
ShoreB. (1996). Culture in mind: Cognition, culture, and the problem of meaning. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
31.
ShoreB (1998). What culture means, how culture means. Worchester, MA: Clarke University Press.
32.
ShyeS.GuttmanL. (1978). Theory construction and data analysis in the behavioral sciences. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
33.
SnowD. A.ZurcherL. A.SjobergG. (1982). Interviewing by comment: An adjunct to the direct question. Qualitative Sociology, 5, 285-311.
34.
StiglerJ. W.ShwederR. A.HerdtG. (1990). Cultural psychology: Essays of comparative human development. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
35.
StraussA.CorbinJ. (1990). Basics of qualitative research: Grounded theory procedures and techniques. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
36.
StraussA.CorbinJ. (1998). Basics of qualitative research: Techniques and procedures for developing grounded theory. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
37.
StraussC. (1992). What makes Tony run? Schemas as motive reconsidered. In D’AndradeR.QuinnN. (Eds.), Human motives and cultural models (pp. 191-224). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
38.
StraussC. (2005). Analyzing discourse for cultural complexity. In QuinnN. (Ed.), Finding culture in talk: A collection of methods (pp. 203-242). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
39.
TannenD. (1993). Framing in discourse. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
40.
TriandisH. (1989). The self and social behavior in differing cultural contexts. Psychological Review, 96, 506-520.
41.
WellerS. C.RomneyA. K.OrrD. P. (1987). The myth of sub-culture of corporal punishment. Human Organization, 46, 39-47.
42.
WilceJ. M. (2003). Social and cultural lives of immune systems. New York, NY: Routledge.
43.
YoungJ. C.GarroL. (1994). Medical choice in a Mexican village. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
